DISCOVERY as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • the act of discovering something

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    Hypernyms(s) discovery is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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  2. Meaning
    • a productive insight

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    Hypernyms(s) discovery is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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  3. Meaning
    • something that is discovered

    Hypernyms(s) discovery is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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  4. Meaning
    • (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case
    • enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

    Hypernyms(s) discovery is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower